How to Make Feather Earrings

Hello all! Happy Monday to you. I have a thing for earrings…big earrings actually. It is an inherent degenerative gene passed down from my mother. All those times I heard my mom say “Where are your earrings?” before I left the house, has made me a believer that earrings are a must accessory. Last year I got these really pretty purple feather earrings from Jewel Mint. Every time I wear purple I do the happy dance that I get to don those bad boys. Without fail, I get compliments on them. So I wanted to recreate them in different colors and I thought I would share the tutorial with you.

Supplies:

Feathers (Bead landing – Michaels $1.99 retail)

Crystal beads bracelet set – Michaels ($3.99 retail)

6 eye pins

2 earring wires

chain nose pliers

round nose pliers with a flush cutter

1. Buying two different beads packs was more expensive than these stretchy crystal bracelets I found on a rack at Michaels. They had two different sized beads on them for $2 (with a coupon – of course). My wrist is tiny so I was able to remove the beads I wanted to use for the necklace and still be able to have the bracelet large enough for my wrist (Double booya!)

2. I removed two large beads and 4 tiny beads from the bracelet. Then I retied the stretchy string so I still had my bracelet in tact. I used an eye pin so I only had to create a basic loop on one end. If you don’t know how to do that Beaducation has a great free video class on it.

3. After making basic loops on all three beads I attached them by opening the loops and adding the feathers and the earring wires and then closing the loop.

It takes about 15 minutes and cost a fraction of the price at the Jewel Mint ones do. You can see the original purple ones at the top and my knock off versions down low.